User`s guide

About this Guide

Scope of this Guide

This guide is written to facilitate installation of the adapter and does not cover

detailed points of network conﬁguration. It contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Features and Capabilities of the SGI 10-Gbit Ethernet Network

Adapter", summarizes features, cabling, conﬁguration limits, and tools.

• Chapter 2, "Connecting the Adapter to a Network", shows you how to connect the

adapter to your network.

• Chapter 3, "Operating the Adapter", explains how to verify installation of the

adapter and software, how to reset the adapter, how to set parameters to improve

performance, and how to set conﬁguration parameters.

• Chapter 4, "Performance Tuning", discusses performance tuning topics for IRIX

and SGI ProPack for Linux.

Related Publications

This guide is part of a document set that fully supports the installation, operation,

and service of the adapter. For more information about installing and servicing the

adapter, see the user’s guide for the system in which the adapter is installed.

Also see the following:

• IRIX Admin: Networking and Mail

• Linux Conﬁguration and Operations Guide

• The Network Administrators’ Guide

• The Intel Corporation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview white paper:

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/white_papers/pro10gbe_lr_sa_wp.pdf

• The Neterion Xframe Adapter Quick Installation and Conﬁguration Guide:

http://www.neterion.com/support/drivers/supportdocs/Xframe-quickICG.pdf

• IRIX man pages that are part of the 10-Gbit Ethernet product:

– xg(7M)

– xgcmd(1M)

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